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BOUI'ONNIERE.

Patentd June 27, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. FISHEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOUTONNliERE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,195, dated June 27,1893.

Application filed February 20, 1893.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. FISHEL, of New York, county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boutonnieres, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boutonnieres or buttonhole bouquets, theobject being to produce a simple device having an artificial floweradapted to be easily attached or detached from the buttonhole of agarment.

I will describe a device embodying my improvement and then point out thenovel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of aboutonniere embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a partial sectionthereof. Fig. 3 is a section similar to In both the examples of myimprovement the flower is removably secured to the stud portion.

Referring by letter to the drawings A. designates the post of a stud andA the shoe or back plate thereof, and A shows a flower detachablysecured to the stud. The flower consists of any suitable material, suchas celluloid or porcelain.

In the example shown in Figs. 1 and '2, the post A has an exteriorthread a adapted to engage with a nut a secured within the flower.

In Fig. 3 the post A is shown as tubular and having an interior threadwith which a $erlal No. 462,991. (No model.)

threaded stem a extended from the base of the flower engages. Thisthreaded stem may have a head a secured within the flower.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a boutonniere, thecombination with an artificial flower, of a screw-threaded piece securedwithin the flower, and an externallyprojecting screw-threaded post orshank engaging therewith, substantially as set forth.

2. In a boutonniere, the combination with an artificial flower, of ascrew-threaded piece secured within the flower, and a post or shankthreaded toward its inner end and engaging with said other threadedpiece and having a shoe or plate at its outer end, substantially as setforth.

3. A boutonniere comprising an artificial flower, a threaded stemsecured at its head within the flower and projecting from the basethereof, and an internally-threaded post or shank one end of whichengages said stem and having at its other end a shoe or plate adapted tobe passed through a button-hole and to retain said post or shanktherein, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. FISI-IEL.

Witn esses:

ANTHONY GREF, CLARENCE R. FERGUSON.

